whoſe Buſineſs is to ſet off with the utmoſt Grace of Speech and Action, thoſe Pieces which the Nation is proud of.
Under the Reign of Charles the Firſt, and in the Beginning of the Civil Wars rais'd by a Number of rigid Fanaticks, who at laſt were the Victims to it; a great many Pieces were publiſh'd againſt Theatrical and other Shews, which were attack'd with the greater Virulence, becauſe that Monarch and his Queen, Daughter to Henry the Fourth of France, were paſſionately fond of them.
One Mr. Prynne, a Man of moſt furiouſly ſcrupulous Principles, who wou'd have thought himſelf damn'd had he wore a Caſſock inſtead of a ſhort Cloak, and have been glad to ſee one half of Mankind cut the other to Pieces for the Glory of God, and the Propaganda Fide; took it into his Head to write a moſt wretched Satyr againſt ſome pretty good Comedies, which were exhibited very innocently every Night be-
